ISO 45001 COMPLIANTDISH-APPROVED

Half-Day Training

Practical half-day certification program focused on operational safety, compliance confidence, and site-level risk control.

Program Overview

Scaffolding provides the temporary elevated working platforms that make construction, maintenance, and industrial operations possible at height. When properly designed, erected, inspected, and used, scaffolding is a reliable and productive working platform. When any of these elements fails, the consequences can be catastrophic — scaffold collapses, falls from incomplete platforms, and overloading incidents have caused numerous fatalities globally. ICLM's Scaffold Safety Training develops competent scaffold users, supervisors, and inspectors who understand how scaffolding systems work and how to keep workers safe on them.

Scaffold-related incidents follow consistent patterns: inadequate foundations, missing or incomplete guardrails, overloading, use of damaged components, working on incomplete scaffolds, and failure to inspect after adverse weather. Each of these failures reflects a training gap that ICLM's program directly addresses — for both scaffold erectors and the workers who use completed scaffolding systems.

Pre-Use Checks

Daily inspection discipline and hazard spotting basics.

Control Principles

Safe methods, sequencing, and decision making in operations.

Emergency Response

Incident communication and immediate response actions.

Core Learning Modules

Module 01

Types of Scaffolding: Independent tied scaffolds, putlog scaffolds, system scaffolds (Kwikstage, Ringlock, Cuplock), tube-and-fitting scaffolds.

Module 02

Scaffold Components: Standards, ledgers, transoms, base plates, sole boards, braces, ties, guardrails, toeboards.

Module 03

Scaffold Design: Load classes (EN 12811), scaffold width, bay lengths, and the role of the scaffold designer for complex structures.

Module 04

Foundations and Ground Bearing: Assessing ground conditions, sole boards, base plates, and adjustable base jacks.

Module 05

Ties and Bracing: Types of scaffold ties (reveal, through, box), tie frequency requirements, and bracing patterns.